[7] Enhanced long-distance communication capabilities.
The era of sending messages through courier stations was gone forever.
Be it during normal times or during wartime, Gaia would no longer restrict players' long-distance communication capabilities. On the contrary, it would be enhanced to the same standard as in reality.
Every player would be given a free communication compass. After adding friends, they could send and receive messages and even video call.
Of course, Gaia would charge a fee.
The communication compass could also seamlessly connect with camera elves. It even had group chat capabilities.
As for receiving and receiving emails, accessing forums, browsing the web, and searching for information, it was all available. It was basically the same as a cell phone in reality.
The only difference was that Gaia did not favor players. Among NPCs, those at the Regent level and above would automatically be given a communication compass and master the corresponding techniques.
This was another move by Gaia to blur the boundaries between players and NPCs.
Without a doubt, the appearance of the communication compass would not only pose a new challenge to the military's combat methods, it would also affect the operations of the civil service.
While increasing efficiency, it would also increase the risk of information leakage.
[8] Officially introduced cultivation realms.
A person's strength could be roughly divided into three main categories: internal strength, moves, and equipment. After removing the additional attributes from weapons and equipment, internal strength often determined a person's strength. It was the most important factor.
After Gaia studied the cultivation situation of players around the world, it officially introduced cultivation realms.
Currently, there were only two major realms, Postnatal and Connate. Each major realm was further divided into nine ranks. The first rank was the lowest, and the ninth was the highest. Every three ranks was a threshold.
Advancing from Postnatal Level 9 to Postnatal Level 1 was another huge threshold.
If a warrior could completely open up the Governing and Conception Vessels, connecting the Yin and Yang meridians as one, there would no longer be any distinction between them, and they would reach the Connate realm.
Connate experts could completely fuse the Yin and Yang energy in their bodies, freely circulating Yin and Yang, ice and fire, changing between hardness and softness. Yin and Yang complemented each other, allowing their internal energy to grow endlessly. They could also directly communicate with external Yuan Qi, allowing them to accumulate Qi at an astonishing rate. That was why they could reach a realm that Postnatal experts could only look up to.
Legend had it that when a person was still a fetus in the womb, their flesh and blood were pure. Not only were the Governing and Conception Vessels unobstructed, even the other six extraordinary meridians were unobstructed. Their entire body would form a complete cycle, and that was the Connate realm. And after birth, they would inhale turbid air from the outside world, causing their meridians to naturally close up. Coupled with the consumption of grains, their flesh and blood would have impurities, no longer pure.
The process of cultivation was a process of removing impurities and returning to the innate state.
According to Gaia's deductions, above the Innate Realm, there should be an even higher realm, the Celestial Realm. However, due to the lack of reference data, he was temporarily unable to make any inferences.
Due to the awakening of his bloodline, Ouyang Shuo had successfully opened up his Conception and Governing Vessels and successfully entered the Xiantian Realm. Even so, Ouyang Shuo was only at the second level of the Xiantian Realm after cultivating the Golden Court's Interior Scenery Scripture to the fifth level.
The path of cultivation had just begun.
[9] Increases the Combat Value of soldiers in all aspects.
After this update, all soldiers in the world, including generals below the King level, would receive a basic cultivation technique, the "War Weapon Manual", which could be cultivated up to the sixth level precelestial.
King Level Martial Artists would receive an advanced cultivation technique 《War General Codex》, which could be cultivated up to the Ninth Level Precelestial; Emperor Level Martial Artists and above would receive the advanced cultivation technique 《War God Codex》, which could be cultivated to the Xiantian realm.
Cultivation did not start from zero.
Third-ranked ordinary soldiers corresponded to the first level postcelestial, sixth-ranked valiant soldiers corresponded to the second level postcelestial, ninth-ranked elite soldiers corresponded to the third level postcelestial, and twelfth-ranked elite soldiers corresponded to the fourth level postcelestial.
King Level Martial Artists automatically advanced to the seventh level postcelestial, while Emperor Level Martial Artists corresponded to the ninth level postcelestial.
In addition, according to the historical legends of the generals, Gaia would also give them a certain enhancement. For example, the God of War Lu Bu, who was a third level postcelestial from the start, was stronger than the current Ouyang Shuo.
The more valiant the general, the more obvious the enhancement effect.
Following this update, the strength of the army would usher in a huge increase. It was already different from the cold weapons used in history, and it would start to develop in a different direction.
In the future, when they collided with firearms, it was still unknown who would win.
Of course, as the individual strength of the generals increased, the previous characteristics of the generals would also disappear. For a dynasty like the Great Xia, which had many famous generals, it would still have a certain impact.
[10] Changes the setting of the territory's fall.
Cities would no longer have city steles, and territories would no longer have territory steles.
War would return to its original source. Attacking and plundering cities would be done by all means, and they would no longer be restricted by an immovable stone tablet, nor would they be forced to teleport.
Taking the Great Zhou Dynasty as an example, even if they conquered Handan City, it did not mean that the Great Zhou Dynasty was destroyed. Only by conquering the entire territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty could they declare the dynasty's destruction.
This also meant that it was impossible to win an all-out war with just a sneak attack on a main city.
Through the four updates, it was obvious that Gaia was constantly integrating the game world with reality. It intended to abandon the previous vague treatment and aim its sword at Planet Hope.
Be it players or NPCs, their behavior would undergo a metamorphosis.
[11] Changes the setting of the imperial city.
All restrictions on the imperial city would be lifted. The various dynasties would be able to move freely and participate in the struggle for supremacy among the empires. Correspondingly, Gaia's previous vague treatment of the imperial city would no longer exist.
The size of the imperial guards in the imperial city would automatically be reduced by half, from the original one in ten to a more reasonable one in twenty. It would be maintained at the same level as the players' territories.
Only then would it be fair.
Taking the China region as an example, the eight dynasties each had 500,000 soldiers. They had the capital to survive in the wilderness, but it was impossible to say that they had the capital to wipe out a territory's dynasty with just a single county.
When the tiger was released from its cage, it naturally had to return to reality.
With Gaia no longer favoring the imperial city, adventurer players would no longer be able to gather in the imperial city unevenly like before. It would no longer be the same.
Settling down in the players' territories and scattering among the counties was a wise move for adventurer players.
Of course, many players would choose to join a sect or simply establish a sect in the players' territories. They would form a group and continue surviving.
Without the need for levels, cultivation would become the mainstream of the players' daily life.
The imperial city's other restriction to adventurer players was the Underworld. It was currently the fastest map for adventurer players, especially combat professional players, to accumulate combat experience.
It was also the main source of income for combat players.
Gaia naturally had a solution for this situation. It could even be said that this was the biggest highlight of this update. However, Gaia did not include it in the update options. Instead, it released another expansion pack.
The moment it was released, it affected the entire wilderness mode.
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